Resource Hierarchy

1. Scoring initiative and ready bodies

A ready unit is a potential movement, a potential attack, a defender, a target for a temporary boost, something First Mate or Twilight Reveler can refresh, a platform for Punch First, and a way to make the opponent commit first. Temporary Might attached to an exhausted or badly placed unit may have no scoring value at all.

2. Units in hand

Units are the ammunition. Every one in hand can be a permanent, a +1 trigger, a reaction if it has Ambush or Hidden, a Legion enabler, a contributor to Kinkou’s threshold, a Thrill target once it enters, or a future scoring wave.

The deck is very good at emptying its hand and much worse at rebuilding it once the opponent answers the resulting board. That makes one distinction worth naming.

• Necessary deployment changes a Hold, a Conquer, a combat, or a critical draw condition.
• Decorative deployment is playing a unit because Energy was available, into an exchange that was already secured.

3. Restricted Power

Energy governs volume; Power governs which combinations are possible. The usual bottlenecks are double Body for Punch First, Fury for Falling Star, Fury for Accelerate on Kai’Sa, Survivor or Rengar, Unseen, Body for Trophy Hunter, mixed requirements when sequencing Thrill alongside another spell, and post-board turns that want Decree or Sabotage before a unit sequence.

A line that is affordable in Energy can still lock you out of the reaction that would have protected it.

4. Battlefield geometry

These units are not interchangeable across locations. What matters is whether a unit is already where Inferna can Ambush, positioned to attack and trigger Twilight Reveler, at Star Spring where it can be returned, exposed alone at Forbidding Waste, at Emperor’s Dais where it can be reclaimed, or on a Ganking Rengar, Unseen that can move itself.

Raw Might matters less than the ability to place that Might at the right battlefield without spending a whole action cycle relocating it.

5. Temporary Might allocations

The +1 expires at end of turn, so it should be allocated on immediate tactical value, in roughly this order: convert a combat loss into a win, convert a tied battlefield into a Conquer or Hold, move a unit outside damage range, enable Kinkou’s condition, force the opponent to spend a card, and only then add excess Might.